Word: brewster
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hear me, my brethren pizza lovers. Take up your napkins and fight the establishment. Write your congressman; write Jimmy Carter; write Ann Landers; you can even write Kingman Brewster if he'll listen. Chant Attica. Take 'za as your mantra. Strike, strike, strike...
From Long Wharf, which just out into its murky waters, to the Brewster Islands--its farthest outposts--Boston harbor reeks of history, not to mention dead fish. For it was here that the British sailed furtively after their evacuation from Boston, it was here that great naval battles of the Revolution were fought, it was here that pirates hung for their crimes, it was here that the words and tune to John Brown's Body, later elevated to the Battle Hymn of the Republic, were composed...
...that Thomas was romancing a young woman in his office; a jealous older secretary's testimony about the Congressman's payroll padding sent Thomas to jail, and a grateful Pearson put her on his payroll for 15 years. In Pearson's eagerness to defeat Senator Owen Brewster of Maine, whom he thought susceptible to influence peddling, he not only recruited an opposition candidate but also got money for his campaign from Brewster's enemy Howard Hughes. As a crusader, says Anderson, Pearson "had excused in allies what he pilloried in foes, had cut corners...
...year drive, the campaign deadline had to be extended, first by one year and then by another six months. Fund raising was hampered by poor coordination of 5,400 volunteer solicitors, and by the mid-campaign departure of Giamatti's predecessor, Kingman Brewster, who joked that his supporters among Old Blues would contribute before he left (to become U.S. ambassador to Britain), while his detractors would contribute after his departure. Something like that may have happened: Campaign Director Lloyd N. Cutler said last week that "a number of people who were standoffish in the beginning warmed up enormously" after...
MARRIED. Joseph P. Kennedy II, 26, eldest son of Ethel Kennedy and the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy; and Sheila Brewster Rauch, 29, daughter of the chairman of the Philadelphia Saving Fund Society; both for the first time; in Gladwyne...